Literature as the Measure of our Lives

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock

Literature as the Measure of our Lives

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock

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Abstract

In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Toni Morrison said: 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' In this paper, I explore, with the help of Wittgenstein, how the language of literature can be the measure of our lives only by exceeding language – that is, by showing what cannot be said.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WITTGENSTEIN AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE
Editors	Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	12
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9781351202671
Publication status	Published - 16 Dec 2020

Keywords

philosophy of literature
Literature
Wittgenstein
F. R. Leavis
Tractatus Logico-Phiosophicus
language
showing vs saying
enactment

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